I’ve written before, in one of the dozens of columns in which I quote Virginia Woolf, how difficult it is to try to cram something new into a Sunday column every week when basically you have three or four obsessions per year, with some lucky ones. The feeling is that the situation should help; Every week, in theory, different things happen. But it happens that the president and Argentine society also have three or four obsessions per year. And then we want to talk about the world, about something that doesn’t just live in my living room or in my head, and we also have to repeat ourselves and write again and again on the same subjects; today, on education.
I always remember that tweet from Busqued who said that no one has as much to say as to write every week, because it’s absolutely true; but I also think now that there is something that can be valuable or interesting about having to think about the same thing several times in a row. This week, in addition to what happened at the local level with Javier Milei’s veto of the university budget and the massive march against it, many North American journalists and academics that I follow on social networks were talking about a note published in Atlantic about the difficulty university students in the United States have in reading entire books. Among the problems cited by the teachers interviewed was the issue of boredom and perseverance: students do not show patience when they encounter a difficult or unentertaining passage. I then thought that I could also learn something from my own boredom, and that sometimes this column, or this country, is about that: discussing the same topics over and over again and having the temperance to wait to see if anything appears. new.
